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I wish more would appreciate Mastodon (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it's not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.

Let's do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won't be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.

As context: I'm one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I think what we are missing is some sort of "unify onboarding portal"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember 2009

The future of technology was bright

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html?m=1

Instead of selling competing protocols, companies and non profits came together to talk together… so that we could too.

Honestly I’d be a lot less negative of bluesky if it added native ActivityPub.

XMPP was added back in the day to W3 internet standard, as ActivityPub has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, the "don't be evil days". I'm old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn't we? Technologically speaking, I'm not getting political.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I'm not giving up on Lemmy either.